CVE-2026-31649

CRITICAL

net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode The jumbo_frm() chain-mode implementation unconditionally computes len = nopaged_len - bmax; where nopaged_len = skb_headlen(skb) (linear bytes only) and bmax is BUF_SIZE_8KiB or BUF_SIZE_2KiB. However, the caller stmmac_xmit() decides to invoke jumbo_frm() based on skb->len (total length including page fragments): is_jumbo = stmmac_is_jumbo_frm(priv, skb->len, enh_desc); When a packet has a small linear portion (nopaged_len <= bmax) but a large total length due to page fragments (skb->len > bmax), the subtraction wraps as an unsigned integer, producing a huge len value (~0xFFFFxxxx). This causes the while (len != 0) loop to execute hundreds of thousands of iterations, passing skb->data + bmax * i pointers far beyond the skb buffer to dma_map_single(). On IOMMU-less SoCs (the typical deployment for stmmac), this maps arbitrary kernel memory to the DMA engine, constituting a kernel memory disclosure and potential memory corruption from hardware. Fix this by introducing a buf_len local variable clamped to min(nopaged_len, bmax). Computing len = nopaged_len - buf_len is then always safe: it is zero when the linear portion fits within a single descriptor, causing the while (len != 0) loop to be skipped naturally, and the fragment loop in stmmac_xmit() handles page fragments afterward.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0046
EPSS Percentile 37.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (28)
linux/Kernel 3.2.0 - 5.10.253linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.203linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.169linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.23linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.13linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.135linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.82linux
Linux/Linux < 3.2
Linux/Linux 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1 - 10d12b9240ebf96c785f0e2e4228318cd5f3a3eb
Linux/Linux 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1 - 275bdf762e82082f064e60a92448fa2ac43cf95b
... and 18 more
Published Apr 24, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 24, 2026